Dayna+Laur+Presenter

= Dayna Laur = = =
 * =daynalaur@gmail.com=

Dayna Laur has been a high school social studies teacher in Pennsylvania for thirteen years. She currently teaches Advanced Placement U.S. Government, U.S. History, and Law at Central York High School where she is a //Classrooms for the Future// teacher. She has her National Board Certification, a B.A. in History from Virginia Tech, and M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Pittsburgh, and an M.S. in 21st Century Teaching and Learning from Wilkes University.

Over the past three years, she has worked closely with the Classrooms for the Future initiative in Pennsylvania, presenting to teachers, instructional technology coaches, administrators, and higher education faculty members on ways in integrate project-based learning in a technology rich classroom environment. She was also featured as the model teacher for Authentic Based Classroom Instruction as produced by the National Institute for Professional Practice.

Since April 2010 she has been a National Faculty Member for the Buck Institute for Education. She acts as a consultant and presenter on the implementation of Project Based Learning and 21st Century Technology Integration

Dayna was awarded the 2010 Outstanding Teacher Award from Shippensburg University, in 2009 the Edublog Awards: Most Influential Tweet Series - Contributing Member of Award Winning #Edchat. Her educational interests include Project-Based Learning, 21st Century Technology Immersion in the Classroom , Collaborative Opportunities Between Districts/States/Countries , Professional Development, and Social Networking to Increase Personal Learning Networks.  []  Links and lessons can be found here in the overview of the PBL Keynote Presentation